At Fluelen, too, she bought a bunch of edelweissfrom a Swiss doll with goitre, and stuck it into the bow on her sailor-hat.
Another excursion was to go up to the same inn, and thence to a little lake at the foot of the Seeberg, where edelweiss is again to be found.
The burdens of the pack-mules and the horns of the cows were decked with the Edelweiss and the Alpine rose.
Everybody in the Alps wears a sprig of Edelweiss in his hat.
The edelweiss is safe, at least," Allard replied soberly.
Did you ever see the frail edelweiss growing on a ledge of some ice-fringed granite cliff?
She now protested that the three Edelweiss were cheap at five sous (cents) each, and the three Alpine roses should go as a bargain to “le beau Monsieur” at three cents a piece.
They are also met with in the lower regions, and the rare Alpine Edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum) frequently covers wide tracts in the plain, and is passed by almost unnoticed by the Siberian botanist.
Then some children emerged from unsuspected lurking-places in the wood and offered bunches of edelweiss (Fig.
The grass of Parnassus and the edelweiss were not yet in flower, but lower down the slopes the Alpine rhododendron was showing its crimson bunches of blossom.
Philip showed him the flower of edelweiss he had brought from the glass on the table inside.
He had not made his expedition among the rocks, and met with his fall in searching for edelweiss for her, but for Artemisia.
Now it flashed upon him that what the guide had meant when indicating the mountain-top wreathed in vapour was--not that edelweiss grew there, but that the weather was going to change, or the fog to descend.
I am too fat to climb, and, besides, my day for edelweiss is over.
I will go searching for edelweiss when we reach the hospice,' said Philip.
With an exclamation of satisfaction Philip sprang up the slope, caught the rock with the hook of his stick, and tore the edelweiss away.
You--going aloft after edelweiss without the smallest acquaintance with its habitat, and with no experience to teach you how to keep your footing in Alpine altitudes, and shooting down, pop!
About the Edelweiss much fiction has been written.
The Lady Marguerite wanted some edelweiss blossoms, and he was trying to find them for her.
Illustration: He lay for some time stunned] The edelweiss is a flower which grows upon dizzy heights, blooming under the snow.
Oh, yes; you shall go, if you like, and one of you shall get me a flower of the edelweiss from some inaccessible crag.
While the clock was playing the thought came to me that we have our edelweiss again.
After a while she rose, sobbing, dried her tears and whispered in his ear, "That is my edelweiss that has grown for me under the snow.
Our story will tell why the young, white-haired mother asks the little plant Edelweiss of her boy when he is starting for foreign lands.
No, I'm sure that edelweiss will do him more good than rose windows, and mountain air than incense.
One can fancy edelweissgrowing freely on Mr. Gladstone.
We are staying in the Edelweiss boarding house; there are about 40 visitors, at least that's what we counted at dinner.
It really has been rather dull here, certainly I can't join in the paean Hella sang about the place last year; of course they were not staying in the Edelweiss boarding house but in the Hotel Kaiser von Oesterreich.
I am having traced on a piece of yellow silk for a book marker an edelweiss and her monogram E.
She was wearing an edelweiss buttonhole which she had not been wearing before; in the evening she told me that Dr.
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